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by knolax 6y ago
Did you know that Animal Crossing is a series of games that run on more Nintendo consoles than just the Switch?
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You know the target is less than half that right.[0] Plus massive underemployment deflates the numbers. [0] https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/economy_14424.htm
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Followed by Nintendo, running a Japanese OS on Japanese Hardware to play Japanese developed games. Have you not noticed the popularity of the new Animal Crossing during quarantine, or the outsized impact Nintendo has had on Western pop cult
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> Whereas most of the world's electronics are partly or totally manufactured in Asia, it's mostly by or for American- or European-owned companies. Top Personal Computer Vendor in 2019 by Market Share is Lenovo[0] Top Mobile Pho
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It's situations like this where I wish there were an OS out there that strictly had Vim-style modal interfaces. All the hand eye coordination and multi-key finger gymnastics required for present UIs just seem extraneous.
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"忘拼音" comes up with these results https://zhidao.baidu.com/question/652630803736726165.html https://iask.sina.com.cn/b/12990158.html Most of the results are actually asking what the PinY
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You forget that a good number of professionals do not use phonetic input methods, and use component based ones like CangJie, Boshiamy, WuBi, Four Corners etc. Plus even phonetic input methods have "fuzzy modes". If you ever watch
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Pinyin is only phonetically regular if you don't actually speak Chinese, and therefore learn all your pronounciations from Pinyin. Even for speakers of Mandarin in Beijing it lacks a competent ability to indicate a merged 兒 at the end
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A nuclear physicist working on graphics software sounds like underemployment to me.
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Fair point.
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I wear a similar Casio and this article reads like "How did breathing oxygen become a terrorist icon". I mean come on, it's one of the most common watches on the planet. The best correlation the article could come up with is
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> The only constructive theory connecting neuroscience and psychology will arise from the study of software. Anyone who actually believes this has a poor understanding of computers, humans, or both.
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"You are using up all the oxygen!" 'but you also use oxygen, and at a higher per capita rate?" "whataboutism"
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As someone who uses Mastodon semi-regularly, I can tell you that the majority of active users are not on the large instances. Most active users are on extremely small instances moderated by single individuals, and most instances are actuall
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The vast majority of instances are one man shows where the admin also has root access to the server the instance is running on. Aside from that I don't think there's anything on the Mastodon webapp itself that lets you post as a u
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And yet despite this, graphic design in Asian countries still manages to use a greater variety of fonts than in Western ones. For example compare this[0] advertisement for curry to this advertisement for fries[1]. [0] https://cha
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A statement and a proclaimation are distinct. A proclaimation implies that it's an announcement meant to be widely seen. In truth I don't think even Trump's supporters pay attention to his Twitter.
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Can you give an example?
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Apparently this is the result of a May 15 rule change[0] to the Export Administration Regulations[1], which affect anything exported from the US. The lesson here is that if you're a foreign company that buys US software and equipment,
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Member of group X chooses to vote for party A instead of the "Kill all X" party.
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As someone who sleeps with the lights on I don't get what the fuss is about.
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If the display is so fragile that a little piece of tape or plastic can harm it, then maybe they should rethink their product design.
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Or if it's a word where the source language doesn't use the Latin Alphabet. I have low confidence in the accuracy of a Tamil ---> Katakana ---> English conversion.
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oh boy here comes the conspiracy theories.
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Why can't startups come up with unique names. Even Krnl would've been better.

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